All countries must implement US-friendly laws

All countries must implement US-friendly laws

Posted Sep 21, 2006 7:37 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox by amd
Parent article: A trademark cease-and-desist for Rockbox's Tetrox

> I still do not understand why US laws apply to all the countries all over
> the world...

They don't; each country gets to make their own laws. What happens, though, is that the US has for a while now been pressuring each country individually to implement laws friendly to US corporations, under the premise of "Free Trade Agreements".

http://www.eff.org/IP/FTAA/

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